The salty life in Life of Pi

Chapter 27 As long as I have no morals, I will not be kidnapped
“Is the injury serious?”

Deng Xiaoqi looked at Jiang Tianhao with a worried look on her face.

Jiang Tianhao's lips turned a little pale, but when he saw Deng Xiaoqi was worried about him first, he felt that the physical pain was much less.

"It's nothing, the doctor said there's no bone damage, I just need to rest for a while, thank you for coming to see me"

Wu Xianyu, who was on the phone with Lao Zhao, glanced at the two of them and said to Lao Zhao on the other end of the phone

"Yes, Haozi was injured because of Qian Sanyi. He used his body to catch the impact. His leg was hit, but his bones were not broken. Okay, I understand."

After hanging up the phone, Wu Xianyu came to Jiang Tianhao and stood beside his bed.
"Just take care of it for now. Lao Zhao has notified your parents and knows that you were injured while trying to save someone. There shouldn't be any punishment."

"Thank you for speaking up."

Jiang Tianhao knew that without Wu Xianyu's help, he would definitely not have an easy time. Wu Xianyu waved his hand without any expression and looked at the time.

"Okay, you wait here for the parents and Lao Zhao to come over, I'm going back to the dormitory first."

After saying that, Wu Xianyu walked out of the infirmary and prepared to return to the dormitory.

After walking a few steps, Lin Miaomiao's voice came

"Xianyu, wait for me"

After standing there and waiting for a while, Lin Miaomiao trotted over and Wu Xianyu looked at her.

"What's wrong? Why did you ask me to do that? I can't take you to the girls' dormitory."

"Bah, who asked you to send it? I wanted to borrow your phone. I'm too lazy to go to the phone booth. The temperature has dropped a bit recently. I asked my dad to send me some clothes."

"Oh, here you go."

Hearing that it was a legitimate reason, Wu Xianyu directly took out his cell phone and handed it to Lin Miaomiao.

Lin Miaomiao did not shy away from calling Lin Dawei in front of Wu Xianyu, telling him that she wanted to send him some clothes, and then returned the phone to Wu Xianyu.

"Are you going to take your phone back to the dormitory like this? I see the lights in the teacher's office are off."

"Give it to the dormitory supervisor."

Wu Xianyu put his phone into his trouser pocket and walked towards the dormitory. Lin Miaomiao followed him, speaking with admiration.
"Your self-control is incredible. You can stop playing with your phone if you say so. I definitely can't do that."

It’s not that Wu Xianyu’s self-control is so strong, it’s just that there’s nothing fun to do with mobile phones nowadays, and he has seen similar routines in novels and videos, so it’s a waste of time to watch them.

But in front of Lin Miaomiao, Wu Xianyu still pretended to be calm.
"They are all external things. If you spend time playing with your phone, you might as well do more research and memorize more words. Strengthening yourself is the right way."

"Be more normal, I'm not used to you being so serious"

Lin Miaomiao obviously had experience and didn't believe Wu Xianyu's words at all.

The two walked to the fork in the road between the male and female dormitories, and Wu Xianyu waved casually.

"Let's go, go to bed early"

"Well, good night."

Lin Miaomiao also replied. Wu Xianyu felt a little uncomfortable. He seemed to have never heard anyone say good night to him, especially a girl of the same age.

Jiang Tianhao was picked up by his parents that night and sent back the next afternoon. Wu Xianyu looked at Jiang Tianhao's straight legs.
"It seems the problem is not serious, so I sent you here right away."

In fact, Jiang Tianhao's parents wanted Jiang Tianhao to rest for a few more days, but Jiang Tianhao insisted on coming back, and he took this opportunity to win Deng Xiaoqi's favor.

Seeing Jiang Tianhao's eyes always glancing in Deng Xiaoqi's direction, Wu Xianyu immediately knew what he was thinking, but he was too lazy to expose him.

"So how do you go up and down the stairs?"

"It's no problem. I just came up by myself. I was just a little slow. It's okay. I just have something to trouble you, Brother Xianyu."

"Tell me what you want, I'll see if I can do it."

"Shouldn't you agree right away at this time?"

"Oh, then if you ask me to help you pursue Deng Xiaoqi, will I agree?"

“No thanks, I’ll do this myself.”

After chatting for a while, Jiang Tianhao finally got down to business.

"I have to go to the infirmary to work under the light at noon. Can you bring me some lunch? Anything is fine as long as it's not fatty. It would be best if there were more vegetables. I haven't been able to exercise recently and I don't want to get fat."

“So many things to do”

Wu Xianyu mumbled something but didn't say whether he agreed or not, but Jiang Tianhao knew that since Wu Xianyu didn't refuse, it meant he agreed, and this guy wasn't embarrassed to say no.

The bell for the last class in the morning rang, and Wu Xianyu patted Jiang Tianhao on the shoulder.
"I'm going to the cafeteria to eat first, and then I'll go directly to the infirmary to find you."

"OK, thank you for your help."

"Ah"

Wu Xianyu strode out of the classroom. Jiang Tianhao watched Lin Miaomiao pulling Deng Xiaoqi to follow them. The light in his eyes dimmed a little. Why did he feel that Deng Xiaoqi didn't care about him that much?

Without Deng Xiaoqi, Jiang Tianhao was too lazy to pretend. He stood up with his hands on the table, and slowly walked downstairs, holding on to the wall. When he reached the first floor, there was a large open space outside the door, and he had nowhere to hold on to.

Just as he was about to endure the pain and move over, a pair of hands supported him. Jiang Tianhao looked back and saw the person he least wanted to see - Qian Sanyi.

"It's you. What? Are you here to laugh at me? You must feel really good seeing me like this."

"I'm not that shameless. At least I know why you were injured."

There was no expression on Qian Sanyi's face as he helped Jiang Tianhao down the last few steps.

The two of them walked to the infirmary in silence. After sitting on the bed, Jiang Tianhao looked at Qian Sanyi who was not ready to leave and said:
"Go eat, I'll have to wait for a while."

"It's okay, someone brought me food, I'll just wait here for a while"

After hearing Qian Sanyi's words, Jiang Tianhao's face darkened a little, and he guessed who brought the meal to this person.

The atmosphere between the two people, which had eased a little, became stiff again.

Deng Xiaoqi, who came in with a lunch box, felt the atmosphere in the infirmary. The corners of her mouth curved up imperceptibly. She handed the lunch box to Qian Sanyi and sat on the chair beside him without even looking at Jiang Tianhao.

Jiang Tianhao lowered his head in disappointment. At this time, two voices came
"Here, your lunch, two vegetarian dishes and one meat dish, and you requested lean meat." "And mine, I bought you pig's trotters, duck feet, and chicken feet. What you eat replenishes what you need, Haozi, eat more."

The voices of Wu Xianyu and Lin Miaomiao came one after another. Jiang Tianhao took the chopsticks and started eating lunch. Looking at the various kinds of food that Lin Miaomiao brought, he was a little hesitant to start.

Seeing this, Wu Xianyu leaned against the wall with his hands folded, and said in a playful tone
"Lin Miaomiao, I told you, Haozi doesn't eat these, especially pig's trotters, which are too fat. He also doesn't eat duck feet and chicken feet. Have you forgotten what Haozi's family does? He must eat a lot of them on a daily basis."

Lin Miaomiao was a little unhappy. She tried to lean on the cart by folding her hands, imitating Wu Xianyu's behavior. However, the cart was movable. Seeing that the heating lamp was about to hit Jiang Tianhao's injured leg, Wu Xianyu stretched out his hands, grabbed the handle of the heating lamp with one hand, and pulled Lin Miaomiao's arm away from the heating lamp with the other hand.

"Hey, Lin Miaomiao, eat more walnuts in the future."

Lin Miaomiao knew she was in the wrong, so she scratched her head with her free hand and smiled awkwardly.
"Ha, my bad, I didn't notice the cart wasn't secured."

Wu Xianyu released his hand from Lin Miaomiao's arm and made a pretentious comment.

“It feels good, suitable for cooking, and I think it will taste better than this pig’s trotter.”

After the thrilling scene just now, Jiang Tianhao was so scared that his appetite was reduced by half. After finishing the lunch brought by Wu Xianyu, he ate a chicken foot and put down his chopsticks.

Lin Miaomiao saw this scene and said
"You're not going to eat it now? That's such a pity."

He took out a pair of chopsticks from somewhere and prepared to help Jiang Tianhao finish the pig's trotter that he had not touched.

Just as she was about to pick up the pig's trotter, a pair of chopsticks appeared from nowhere and took away half of the trotter before Lin Miaomiao. Lin Miaomiao looked up at Wu Xianyu with an incredible look on her face.
“Where did you get the chopsticks??”

"When you bought the pig's trotters, I took a pair from the cafeteria. After all, I was sure Haozi wouldn't eat them."

Wu Xianyu used the lid of the lunch box to catch the soup dripping from the pig's trotter and ate it without any hesitation.

Lin Miaomiao picked up the other half of the pig's trotter angrily

“I bought this.”

"I used Haozi's meal card."

Jiang Tianhao looked at the two of them speechlessly. It turned out that they were both eating their own food.

At this time, Qian Sanyi also finished his meal. He didn't touch the meat and vegetables in his lunch box. He had finished the rice and vegetables. Seeing him packing up his lunch box, Deng Xiaoqi asked with concern:

“Why don’t you eat meat?”

"I swear, I won't eat meat until Haozi's leg is healed"

Qian Sanyi said this in a very confident tone. Deng Xiaoqi's eyes lit up and she seemed to be infected by his sense of responsibility. She also raised her hand and swore.

"Then I will be a vegetarian from now on."

After hearing this, both Qian Sanyi and Jiang Tianhao felt comfortable. Qian Sanyi thought that Deng Xiaoqi was following his footsteps and was infected by him; Jiang Tianhao thought that Deng Xiaoqi cared about him.

As if he thought of something, Qian Sanyi looked at the two people over there. He said nothing, but it seemed that he had said everything.

Deng Xiaoqi and Jiang Tianhao also looked over. Lin Miaomiao, who was gnawing on a pig's trotter, felt pressured by being stared at. She looked at the pig's trotter in her hand and didn't know how to eat it.

Wu Xianyu slowly finished chewing the pig's trotter, wiped his mouth and hands with paper, and looked at Qian Sanyi.
"You did a good job. You have a sense of responsibility as a man. Very good."

After saying that, there was no further news. Jiang Tianhao chuckled, knowing that this would be the result.

Qian Sanyi felt his temples throbbing when he heard Wu Xianyu's tone like an elder. Deng Xiaoqi felt something was wrong and reached out to grab Qian Sanyi's sleeve. Just as she was about to stop him, Qian Sanyi had already said

"Haozi, as your friend, shouldn't you also be a vegetarian?"

Wu Xianyu looked at Qian Sanyi with a look of disgust.
"Is it because of me that Haozi's leg was injured? Can my vegetarian diet help him get better soon? Also, do I look like someone who could be kidnapped by morality?"

Qian Sanyi pursed his lips, unable to say anything. He didn't understand why he, such a successful person, couldn't get any advantage from Wu Xianyu.

Seeing Qian Sanyi being humiliated, Jiang Tianhao smiled and put his hands behind his head, ready to watch the show.

Wu Xianyu looked at Qian Sanyi's lunch box and smiled disdainfully.
"You're wasting food and you still have the nerve to pretend to be indifferent. Old Yuan was wrong. He let people like you eat too much. You're bored and looking for trouble every day. There are only a few of us in the infirmary now. I'm just saying this. I hope you can remember my words. Think about it yourself. How many times did I take the initiative to intervene when you and Haozi quarreled? And the world between the three of you is crowded enough, so I won't get involved."

After saying that, Wu Xianyu packed up Jiang Tianhao's lunch box, wiped the soup splashed on the table, and turned to look at Lin Miaomiao.
"Do you want to stay here? I'm going back to the dormitory to rest."

“No, no, it’s too crowded here, hahahahaha”

Lin Miaomiao obviously agreed with Wu Xianyu's words. After she finished speaking, she laughed and followed Wu Xianyu out of the infirmary.

Jiang Tianhao waved goodbye to his two friends. He looked very proud. Looking at Qian Sanyi's blushing face, he felt relaxed both physically and mentally.

Not long after Wu Xianyu and the other man left, Qian Sanyi also stood up and left a message.

“I’m back in the classroom.”

After walking out of the infirmary, he saw that Deng Xiaoqi didn't follow him, and he felt a little sad, but he still walked towards the classroom without saying a word.

Deng Xiaoqi, who stayed in the infirmary, looked at Jiang Tianhao, hesitated for a while and spoke

"Haozi, Qian Sanyi has helped me a lot after all. My grades are also improved by him. I must build a good relationship with him."

"It's okay, I understand."

Jiang Tianhao answered casually. He has always thought so. He believes that he definitely has a place in Deng Xiaoqi's heart.

After Deng Xiaoqi finished speaking, she ran out of the infirmary and caught up with Qian Sanyi, whispering to him:
"Yiyi, Haozi was injured because of you after all, you can't just ignore him and ask me to help you put in a good word for him."

After hearing Deng Xiaoqi's words, Qian Sanyi's original resentment immediately dissipated. This sentence reminded him of the literary works he had read, in which there were plots where the male host offended someone outside and the female host helped to apologize. That moment was exactly like this moment.

Qian Sanyi wanted to turn around and hug Deng Xiaoqi to thank her for her efforts, but the young man's reserve and shyness made him dare not do so. But at this moment, he felt something soft and boneless in his hand, smooth and soft, with body temperature. It should be Deng Xiaoqi's hand.

Thinking of this, Qian Sanyi felt his heartbeat speeding up. At this time, Deng Xiaoqi's voice came.

"Also, you'd better not go against Wu Xianyu in the future. He is a tough guy who doesn't care about face at all. Besides, he really hasn't offended you. Because of what you did this time, Miaomiao won't leave with me."

When Qian Sanyi heard Deng Xiaoqi speaking for Wu Xianyu, he felt unhappy, but when he felt the smoothness in his hand, he nodded and agreed.

Seeing Qian Sanyi nod, Deng Xiaoqi breathed a sigh of relief. Just now in the infirmary, she almost thought that Wu Xianyu was going to get angry. In her heart, she also felt a little resentful towards Qian Sanyi for being so stubborn and not learning his lesson even after being told so many times.

But it is also because of Qian Sanyi's character that he can control him. Jiang Tianhao also has to give him some benefits to put pressure on Qian Sanyi.

Hearing footsteps coming from the stairs, Deng Xiaoqi immediately withdrew her hand. Although Qian Sanyi felt regretful, he could accept it. After all, this was not allowed behavior.

When he returned to the classroom, he did not rush to do his homework. Instead, he lay on the table, pretending to sleep, and smelled the remaining fragrance in his hands.

(End of this chapter)